air mass/fronts

What type of front is shown?

• Warm Front

• Cold Front

• Occluded Front

• Stationary Front

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What type of front is shown?

• Warm Front

• Cold Front

• Occluded Front

• Stationary Front

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

How does the air in this type of front move?

• Warm air slowly moves over cold air

• Warm air rapidly moves up when meeting cold air

• Warm air is trapped between two colder air masses

• Warm air meets cold air and cannot move

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What type of weather does this front bring?

• Cloudiness and light precipitation; warm and mild weather follows

• Thunderstorms can occur; cool, fair weather follows

• Many days of clouds and precipitation

• Temperature drops; strong winds and heavy precipitation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What type of weather does this front bring?

• Cloudiness and light precipitation; warm and mild weather follows

• Thunderstorms can occur; cool, fair weather follows

• Many days of clouds and precipitation

• Temperature drops; strong winds and heavy precipitation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which type of front is displayed?

• Cold
• Warm
• Stationary
• Occluded

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What direction is the warm front moving on the map? 

• North
• South
• East
• West

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What type of weather would you expect to see after a warm front has passed through an area?

• cool and clear skies
• warm and humid
• thunderstorms
• foggy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

A cold, dry air mass would be called - 

• continental tropic
• continental polar
• maritime polar
• continental maritime

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

When a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet, but they push at each other and neither one can move, it is called a/an - 

• warm front
• cold front
• occluded front
• stationary front

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5